Dinis Dias is a Navigateur and a Explorateur Portuguese of the 15th century.

Patronym

The transcription of its name varies according to the sources. For the first name one finds Dinis , but also Denis . As for family name, one raises Dias , Diaz or Dyaz , but also Fernandes or Fernandez , in particular for the latest references. This can be explained by the use of Patronyme S doubles in the Iberian peninsula, since one also meets Denis Dias E Fernandes .

Biography

Its birth date and that of its death are not known with certainty. Dinis Dias is resulting from the Portuguese nobility and lives with Lisbon, at the court of the king Jean Ier of Portugal. One allots two great voyages to him on the African coasts. According to the chronicler Gums Eanes de Zurara, Dinis Dias was the first Portuguese navigator charged with the captures slaves by Henri the Navigator, who wished to sell them to finance his forwardings.

In 1442, in company of Gonçalo de Sintra, it arrives until the Cape Blanc (in Portuguese, Cabo Branco ).

In 1444 it reaches the most Western point of the African continent and names it Cap Verde ( Cabo Verde in Portuguese) because of the luxuriant vegetation that it observes there. This place corresponds to the Presqu'île of Cape Verde in the Senegal of today and not with the islands of Cape Verde which will be discovered only in 1456. It also reaches the island of Gorée which it however indicates under the name of Palma .

August 18th, 1446 the king Alphonse V of Portugal names it with the head of the supreme court ( Casa C Cívil ).

Posterity

The navigator Bartolomeu Dias would be one of his descendants, or at least a relative.

Ve centenary of discovered of Cape Verde is celebrated with Dakar in 1944 and joins together for the first time of the ethnologists, geographers and naturalists West African.

See too

Related articles

• Great discoveries
• Chronology of explorations
• List of explorers
• Island of Gorée
• Peninsula of Cape Verde

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